Events
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Neutrino physics: past, present and future
Date and Time: Thursday, 19 December 2019, 10:00 – 15:30
Location: Springer Nature Campus, London
This event was organised by Dr Teppei Katori, King's College London and Dr Iulia Georgescu, Nature Reviews Physics with support from JSPS London
Neutrinos may be key to tackling deep questions about the Universe, such as the existence of new physics beyond the predictions of the accepted model of particle physics. There are many things we don't yet fully understand about these elusive particles, and to search for answers, physicists rely on large high-precision instruments built in unusual places, such as the Antarctic or abandoned underground mines, that are operated by big international collaborations. Some of the questions this event covered include: What have we learned about neutrinos in the past decade and what do we hope to uncover in the coming years? How do these large instruments work and what does it take to run large international collaborations? Why do physicists build their experiments in remote locations and what technologies do they use to detect neutrinos? What challenges do they encounter when working across continents?
Five leading scientists from the UK and Japan gave presentations and shared their excitement about neutrino physics and discussed the practical challenges they face in their research.
Speakers:
Linda Cremonesi, University College London, UK
Linda is a member of the DUNE (USA), NOvA (USA), and ANITA (Antarctica) collaborations. Linda actively engages on outreach and minority issues in STEM.
Atsuko Ichikawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Atsuko is the spokesperson of the T2K experiment (Japan). She is the recipient of the first Toshiko Yuasa prize for her contribution to the development of the J-PARC neutrino beam.
Mark Vagins, UC Irvine, USA and Kavli IPMU, Japan
Mark spent many years working on neutrino experiments in Japan and is the first full-time foreign professor to be based at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU).
David Wark, University of Oxford, UK
David was the director of the particle physics group at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, former T2K international spokesperson (Japan), former UK co-spokesperson of the SNO experiment (Canada).
Moderator:
Yoshi Uchida, Imperial College London, UK
Yoshi has been a member of various Institute of Physics group committees after chairing the high-energy particle physics group for many years. Yoshi is now involved in the T2K, Super-Kamiokande, and COMET collaborations (all based in Japan).
Summary of the event:
http://blogs.nature.com/onyourwavelength/2019/12/19/neutrino-physics-past-present-and-future/
Posted on 07 November 2019
